I just saw this article about an eyelash lengthener that is actually a medication to treat eye disease!

And why is the lifeless, ineffectual FDA all in a twitter over this as opposed to other, more health-threatening products?

Last Friday, the lifeless, ineffectual FDA sent agents to a warehouse and seized thousands of tubes of Age Intervention Eyelash, which the FDA called an “unapproved and misbranded drug.” The agency, according to the article, said it hadn’t received any reports of patient injuries, but warned the product might be potentially harmful because it conains bimatoprost, the chemical in the prescription drug to treat eye disease.

Where was the FDA when they received thousands and thousands of reports about injuries from implants? They didn’t listen, suggesting that women with implants were just complainers. Then they sat on their hands, did nothing, then approved the product! Here we have a case of a possibly dangerous product with no negative reports and the FDA is all over them like a swarm of bees.

I just don’t get it. But, I do get this: There is no way that I will use any product that has been approved for the treatment of disease and then turned into a cosmetic product. I’m not signing on for products developed as the result of an unexpected side-effect.

I will go to no length to achieve longer eyelashes. I hope you won’t either.